From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 08:50:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576BE16A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:50:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp4.knology.net (smtp4.knology.net [24.214.63.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BBA043D48 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:50:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: (qmail 18436 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2004 16:50:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.68?) (24.214.34.52) by smtp4.knology.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2004 16:50:03 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) In-Reply-To: <200401161709.25264.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org> References: <200401160955.25957.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <200401161709.25264.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <05ED6F07-4844-11D8-904E-000393BB56F2@hiwaay.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:50:00 -0600 To: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) Subject: Re: exited on signal 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:50:10 -0000 On Jan 16, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2004 16:55, David Kelly wrote: > >> Have seen the size over 525M. In any case for this particular >> newsgroup >> pan core dumps on signal 6. An "abort"? Where is this signal coming >> from? > > From malloc() most probably. > Check the value of MAXDSIZ in your kernel config, or use limits -d to > find out > that the default maximum data size for any process is 512Megs. Sure enough, limits -d says 512M. The core dump was 480M so maybe it blew up on attempt to allocate a bunch more. Didn't find any mention of these limits mentioned in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ but "find /usr/src/sys -type f -exec grep -l MAXDSIZ "{}" \;" turned up /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES which had more stuff that I had not seen including examples of how to set the default and the absolute max. So have launched a build with limits set to 1GB and will see how that fares. Thanks! -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.